9:00 am, January 31, 2018
Commission Office
The ACP Building - 8th Floor
190 N. Independence Mall West
Philadelphia, PA
For directions Call (215) 592-1800
Please Use Sixth Street Entrance
9:00 am Registration, Coffee, and Networking
9:30 am Opening Remarks
Patty Elkis, Director of Planning, DVRPC
Dr. Val Arkoosh, Chair, Montgomery County Commissioners and Co- chair, Healthy Communities Task Force
9:40 am Keynote Presentation
Residential Segregation and Health
Dr. Thomas LaVeist, Department Chair and Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University.
10:40 am Active Break
Kelli McIntyre, Physical Activity Coordinator, Get Healthy Philly
10:50 am What's Happening In Our Area?
A panel moderated by: Amy Carroll-Scott, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health & Prevention,
Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health
Women’s Community Revitalization Project
Nora Lichtash, Executive Director
New Jersey Citizen Action
Beverly Brown Ruggia, Financial Justice Organizer
Nursing Family Partnership & Nursing Legal Partnership
Stephanie Dorenbosch, Esq., Managing Attorney, HELP: MLP
Little Giant Creative
Tayyib Smith, Co-Founder
11:55 am Closing Remarks
Christina Miller, Executive Director, Health Promotion Council and Co- chair, Healthy Communities Task Force
Amy Verbofsky, Senior Planner, DVRPC
12:00 pm Lunch
Please stay to network and continue the discussion.